Re: [techtalk] gdm returning error mesgs

2001-04-03 Thread Marie Fischer
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Kristin Ziel wrote: > I rebooted my machine the other day, and now gdm returns error messages > and won't start. i think i know this ... with reboot intervals longer than 3 weeks, i just don't remember everything i changed in between. just some odd thoughts (i don't use gdm

Re: [techtalk] New Linux Kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Marie Fischer
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Unfortunately I'm not sure what you can do now that you have apparently > overwritten your library files... others may have suggestions :( reinstall the package where the headers/libs came from? -- marie

Re: [techtalk] /usr/local/include

2001-01-24 Thread Marie Fischer
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Darren wrote: > I upgraded from RH 6.1 to 7.0, and one of the (many) things that's been > changed as a result was that my backspace key no longer acted like a > backspace key. In the course of trying to fix it, I was trying to compile > the one-line of C code on this page: >

Re: [techtalk] Woes :\

2001-01-04 Thread Marie Fischer
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Kath wrote: > Suddenly, I can no longer receive email sent to kathweb.net. In > Outlook Express, I get the following error: > "A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Account: > 'kathweb.net', Server: 'kathweb.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, > Secure(SSL):

Re: [techtalk] Need CD Cover Template Plugin for The Gimp

2000-11-29 Thread Marie Fischer
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tricia Bowen wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find a plugin for The Gimp that would > give me the basic template for designing a CD cover? Or is there any > other linux based program that I can use? hi tricia, http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=cd+cover ... most of them pr

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Re: [announce] Women for KDE

2000-11-22 Thread Marie Fischer
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 Justine Cubbage tenZeldam wrote: > > KDE is awesome! > > > Used it the first time Oct. 28 during the Simi Valley LUG Fest, > > while running a Star Office presentation. Along with Mandrake 7.2, > > the entire presentation went o

Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?

2000-09-26 Thread Marie Fischer
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Subba Rao wrote: > I have a directory of 1+ text files and would like to search for > some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an > asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect, > > "File argument list too long" > Might be th

Re: [techtalk] sound question (kind of long)

2000-06-16 Thread Marie Fischer
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, mithrandr wrote: > After playing with OSS on and off for an hour, I say to myself "Self, > didn't I see Ensoniq AudioPCI drivers in the kernel config when I upgraded > to the 2.2.16 kernel?" "Why yes, I certainly did, lets get rid of this > bolluxed OSS, it's more trouble tha

Re: [techtalk] mass useradd

2000-06-15 Thread Marie Fischer
> Is there a built-in linux command to do this, or does anyone know of a good > script? hm, this really belongs in a faq ... i'm sure we've had this question before though i can't find it in the archives right now (argh. why aren't they searchable?) -- marie

Re: [techtalk] do you know how to send dual msgs?

2000-05-31 Thread Marie Fischer
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Elizabeth Leight wrote: > I'm wondering how to send email messages that query the reader's app > and display as text if that's what you're reading with (ie, pine or mutt), > or display as html if you have an html-capable reader (ie, Netscape)? Really, you don't want to do

Re: [techtalk] Linux Barcode Scanner & Printer

2000-05-31 Thread Marie Fischer
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Stephan Zaniolo wrote: > Could someone please point me towards information on bar code scanners and > printers that work under Linux? The company I work for uses bar code scanners with linux and this is what I got from some short talk with one of the guys who program them

Re: [techtalk] Starting programs at boot -- various questions

2000-05-12 Thread Marie Fischer
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Alex Yan wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Darren wrote: > > 1. I recently installed a true type font server, xfstt, primarily because > > I miss Verdana, et al, when web browsing. I'd like this to start at boot; > > what's the best way of doing this? > > There are a number of w

Re: [techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-09 Thread Marie Fischer
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeff Dike wrote: > > What does signal 11 mean? > > The question you probably wanted answered more than that is what's going on. > With random behavior like you're getting, and with random SIGSEGVs involved, > my WAG would be bad memory. We kept getting random signal 11's w

Re: [techtalk] blank screen at boot

2000-05-09 Thread Marie Fischer
Thnx to everybody who replied. It turned out to be a mixture of problems, my bf and his friend spent the whole evening on it (I'm studying for exams :( ). In the end, they had two identical m/b's and RAM's that would work together in one way but not the other. And yes, the bios needed to be flashe

RE: [techtalk] Can the boot up screen be replaced?

2000-05-09 Thread Marie Fischer
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Anne Forker wrote: > In /etc, you have 2 files named issue and issue.net. These files contain > the information which is displayed as a welcome screen. I've tried to > change these files on a RedHat 5.2 box -- but something in the system > rewrote them on shutdown or on bootup

[techtalk] blank screen at boot

2000-05-08 Thread Marie Fischer
this is not a linux-specigic question, but maybe somebody can help: after putting together my new box (aopen ax67c m/b, celeron 333, 64 mb sdram, ati rage graphics, atx case) and turning it on, it does nothing - the screen stays black, keyboard LEDs don't react. However, the cpu fan works and the

Re: [techtalk] DHCP vs. Static security

2000-05-05 Thread Marie Fischer
On Fri, 5 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to get opinions on using static ip's as opposed to dhcp. I > work in a relatively small office and was thinking that if everyone had a > static IP then I could use arp to map the MAC to the IP and have a better > understanding of who was

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-26 Thread Marie Fischer
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Darren Osadchuk wrote: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jeff wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 12:39:11PM -0600, Darren Osadchuk wrote: > >> > >> Which is what they are: > >> > >> drwxr-xr-x 27 501 users4096 Mar 25 01:09 darren > > > >I've seen this before. You don't 'o

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-07 Thread Marie Fischer
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jeff wrote: > Anyway, ditch communicator would be the best option. I'm about to do > some upgrades on my computer, and I'll also be doing a fresh install. > So instead of netscape, I'm going to try suffering through the latest > Mozilla milestone :) I heard it is getting rat

Re: [techtalk] viewer for doc/excel

2000-03-01 Thread Marie Fischer
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Sean Garrett (MBD) wrote: > there is an msword to html converter as well called mswordview its cli > based so it might be possible to open the mime type with a perl script > or some such and then open the .html file created it's called wvHtml now, package should be wv (or wvVa

Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

2000-01-26 Thread Marie Fischer
end to think there's some misunderstanding here, sorry if I didn't express myself clearly at some point. > Quoting Marie Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > It is possible to run many differe

Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

2000-01-26 Thread Marie Fischer
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is possible to run many different resolutions and > color depths on an X server. If they are all setup right > the key sequence [ctrl+alt+"+"] will bring higher > resolutions and the "-" sign will bring lower > resolutions. color depths too?

Re: [techtalk] MP3's and my laptop

2000-01-25 Thread Marie Fischer
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Terri Oda wrote: > celeron under the hood) using a maestro sound card. It plays CDs > beautifully and seems to have no problem with wav files or anything > else... until I come to mp3's. Winamp skips, as did the other player I > tried in windows, as do mpg123 and xmms under

Re: [techtalk] where do I put a module to have it come up at boottime?

2000-01-16 Thread Marie Fischer
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Samantha Atkins wrote: > I recently added a scsi controller to my Linux box that was just IDE. I > can't seem to find the place to add in that it should install aic7xxx > automagically at boot time. I'm currently just installing it manually > using insmod. It seems like t

Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)

2000-01-14 Thread Marie Fischer
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Wendt,Andrew wrote: > [...] > >6. Get a color scheme that works for you, and stick with it. I like > >black text on a light yellowy background for major reading of computer > >text, purply or blue-green title bars, matching widgets, light yellowish > >text in the titlebars, m

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-17 Thread Marie Fischer
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Cat wrote: > When I get that 'ansi' message, I type: > > TERM=vt100;export TERM > > This will change your term type to vt100 for the duration of your session, > and allow you to use pine. (At least it has always worked for me :-). And if it does work, you might as well pu

Re: xinitrc (was:Re: [techtalk] netscape woes)

1999-11-11 Thread Marie Fischer
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Marlene E. Morley wrote: > I just gotta throw in my .02 cents on the wm issue... I know this is a Holy > War just like the distribution preferences, but my personal wm of choice is > Blackbox. It's small, like < 3 meg download, takes up only 1.7% of my memory, > loads fast, e

Re: [techtalk] Journaling file system for linux.

1999-11-08 Thread Marie Fischer
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, TheCoder wrote: > Has anyone tried installing the 2.2.13 kernel with the journaling > ReiserFS? > I will be attempting an install today with this modified kernel, and was > wondering if anyone might have some gotchas / quirks to be aware of > before I start... We did it yester

Re: [techtalk] sharing a newly installed HD...

1999-11-02 Thread Marie Fischer
Hi! On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Walt wrote: > But when I mount them to directories, like: > /dev/sdd1 /home/working/a-m > > where /home/working is a samba and appletalk share, none of > the clients have write access. Also, I have the directories chowned > to the the client's group, but ownership change

Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, the undead

1999-11-01 Thread Marie Fischer
Hi! On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Tonya Winter wrote: > One of the reasons I wanted to upgrade is that I can't seem to mount the CD > ROM. I have tried many different pieces of advice. The most frequently > suggested being "type mount /dev/hdc/cdrom (or whatever your cdrom is > usually hdc but maybe hd